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Civic Tech in Small Towns: Low-Budget Wins
Small towns win at civic technology by borrowing: open standards, redeployed city code, commodity reporting apps, and the free Census API.

Small towns win at civic technology by borrowing: open standards, redeployed city code, commodity reporting apps, and the free Census API.

Zoning runs on a map, a code, and state-granted power. A 1920s model act set the template, the Supreme Court blessed it in 1926, and legislatures are now editing the result.